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Christopher Moore: Calling Philosophers Names. On the Origin of a Discipline, Princeton / Oxford: Princeton University Press 2020
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The humor of Christopher Moore
No full textDiese Diplomarbeit analysiert den Humor des zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Schriftstellers Christopher Moore anhand seiner Romane "Coyote Blue", "Island of the Sequined Love Nun", "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal", "Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings" und "A Dirty Job". Der Autor wird in einem Anfangskapitel vorgestellt. Der folgende Abschnitt behandelt das Konzept von und die Geschichte des Ausdrucks "Humor", verschiedene Methoden dieses Phänomen zu kategorisieren und einen Überblick der Humortheorie der Griechen, der Lateiner, der Renaissance und der Neuzeit. Abschließend werden besondere Arten von Humor dargestellt. Die Besprechung der Primärliteratur beinhaltet eine allgemeine Analyse, einen generellen Vergleich der Protagonisten, Argumente, diese als "pikareske Heilige" ('picaresque saints') einzuordnen und eine Betrachtung der Funktion ihres Humors. In dem folgenden Abschnitt wird der Figurenhumor (character humor) anhand der Kategorien "der (fügsame) lüsternde Mann" ('the (pliable) lustful male'), "die (sexuell) überlegene Frau" ('the (sexually) superior female'), "der unglückseelige 'Beta-Mann'" ('the hapless 'Beta Male''), "der Besserwisser" ('the smart aleck'), "der Schwindler" ('the trickster') und "das exzentrische Gemüt" ('the eccentric mind') besprochen. Anschließend wird die Verwendung von Figuren als Repräsentationen weitverbreiteter nationaler, ethnischer, subkultur-spezifischer oder sexistischer Stereotypen untersucht. Der abschließende Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit den in der Primärliteratur häufig angesprochenen Themen (Absurdität, das Makabre, vulgäre Sprache und Sex, Religion, Hoch- und Populärkultur). Die Arbeit endet mit der Betonung der wichtigen Rolle, die Moores komische Figuren, die Verwendung von Stereotypen, Sarkasmus, Situationsironie und Witze über Tabuthemen wie auch das Vorhandensein von Absurdität für die Erzeugung seines narrativen Humors spielen.In this diploma thesis, the humor of the American writer Christopher Moore is studied by the analysis of his novels 'Coyote Blue', 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun', 'Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal', 'Fluke Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings' and 'A Dirty Job'. In an initial section the author is introduced. The following chapter includes discussions of the concept and the history of the term 'humor', various methods of categorizing it and an outline of humor theory as laid out by the Greeks, the Latins, the Renaissance and modern times. This section concludes with the discussion of special types of humor. The examination of the primary literature includes a general analysis, a comparison of the protagonists, arguments for labeling them as 'picaresque saints' and a consideration of the function of their humor. In the successive section, the writer's character humor is analyzed by categorizing his figures as examples of 'the (pliable) lustful male', 'the (sexually) superior female', 'the hapless 'Beta Male'', 'the smart aleck', 'the trickster' or 'the eccentric mind'. Subsequently, the use of characters as representations of common national, ethnic, sub-culture or sexist stereotypes is examined. The final section focuses on prevalent topics (absurdity, the macabre, crude language and sex, religion, high and popular culture) found in the novels. The thesis concludes by stressing the importance of Moore's flawed comic characters, the use of stereotypes, sarcasm, irony, jokes about taboo topics and absurdity for the creation of his narrative humor
Commonising the enclosure: online games and reforming intellectual property regimes
No full textChristopher Moore explores the rewriting of the boundaries in the production and ownership of intellectual property in the computer games industry. His paper explores how computer games users establish commons-like formations, specific to the digital environment, that extend the confines of current intellectual property rights. Moore argues that the productive activities of online gamers are not motivated by the traditional logic of market-based incentives
Christopher Moore, Calling Philosophers Names . On the Origin of a Discipline
Full text linkCet ouvrage vigoureux, fruit d’une longue recherche que Christopher Moore a menée au cours des dix dernières années, propose une perspective nouvelle et stimulante sur les origines de la philosophie grecque. Plus précisément, comme l’explique Moore dans le premier chapitre introductif (p. 1-33), il ne s’est pas fixé pour objectif de reconstituer (la nième fois) le déroulement des doctrines des penseurs grecs à partir de Thalès, mais d’enquêter sur les significations prises par le terme philos..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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